北卡罗拉娜州立大学

The Masters of Art + Design (MAD) is focused on experimental media arts and prepares students to be design directors, practitioners, visionaries, and leaders in the field who are able to respond to the social, cultural and economic shifts that current times – and global economies – demand. Our students become creative thinkers and skilled makers in an inter-disciplinary educational environment, which provides the critical knowledge and expertise to re-imagine new contexts that challenge traditional structures and assumptions guiding art and design practice.

The MAD program promotes the highest level of research, resulting in proven innovation that informs emerging media platforms and product development.

The program encourages graduate students to apply design thinking and innovative technologies in new directions through research, experimentation, creative production, and entrepreneurship. Graduate students are also expected to create, present and interpret their work with the intellectual expertise and refined skills required to become leaders in their professional field.

Students in the MAD program engage in rigorous research and studio-intensive coursework which supports a critical perspective in art and design that is intellectually, conceptually, and technically insightful and experimental.

Experimental Media Arts challenges experienced and self-driven students to find new and exciting intersections between storytelling, animation and kinetic and experimental interactions. Students underpin the products and experiences that they are designing with intensive research regarding theory, practice and technology. The MAD aims to create leading practitioners that are working to shape the future of the field from both an experiential and technological perspective.

Students in the program have the option of doing a final project or more theoretical and research-based paper or study.